Klokotnitsa Ridge

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Klokotnitsa Ridge (Bulgarian: хребет Клокотница, ‘Hrebet Klokotnitsa’ \'hre-bet klo-'kot-ni-tsa\) is the rounded ice-covered ridge extending 12 km in north-south direction, 4 km wide and rising to 1554 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated on the northwest side of Detroit Plateau, with two northerly offshoots of the ridge forming Dragor Hill and Borovan Knoll. The feature has steep and partly ice-free west, north and east E slopes surmounting Whitecloud Glacier to the west and McNeile Glacier to the east.

The ridge is named after the settlement of Klokotnitsa in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Klokotnitsa Ridge is located at 63°57′55″S 59°27′25″W / 63.96528°S 59.45694°W / -63.96528; -59.45694Coordinates: 63°57′55″S 59°27′25″W / 63.96528°S 59.45694°W / -63.96528; -59.45694, which is 28.8 km southeast of Cape Kater and 26.7 km south of Cape Kjellman. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Klokotnitsa Ridge. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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